* Note: this event is sponsored by Jim Mulherin: contact him for more information: 831-427-2219.
Talk and Q&A: Victor Grossman on A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee
Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 4 p.m.,
Community Room, Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA
Victor Grossman, born Stephen Wechsler in 1928, is an American journalist, writer, and popular speaker who defected to the Soviet Union in 1952. He has since lived in East Germany, then in reunified Germany, chronicling life, politics, and humanity. Grossman will speak about his recent book A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee (2019).
  (copies will be on hand to purchase)
Here are other very interesting links about Victor in addition to the Monthly Review Press comments:  https://www.vice.com/en_us/ article/jmvw57/crossing-the- danube-000599-v20n5 a committed life of activism with photos
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ jewish-communist-expats-in- east-germany-recall-heady- 1950s/Â being a radical Jew